prettiness

[US]/'pritinis/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. beauty, attractiveness.

Example Sentences

Prettiness makes no pottage.

She exudes natural prettiness.

Her prettiness is enhanced by her smile.

The garden is filled with prettiness.

She has a delicate prettiness about her.

The prettiness of the sunset took my breath away.

The prettiness of the flowers brightened up the room.

She radiates prettiness wherever she goes.

The prettiness of the dress caught everyone's attention.

Her prettiness is captivating.

The prettiness of the landscape was breathtaking.

Real-world Examples

When it came it would swallow up all her prettiness and everything that had happened to her.

Source: Tess of the d'Urbervilles (abridged version)

The same type of prettiness could contain weakness and strength.

Source: Modern University English Intensive Reading (2nd Edition) Volume 3

Rothko started to sell, but he knew the difference between prettiness and power.

Source: The Power of Art - Mark Rothko

'All my prettiness comes from her, and she was only a dairymaid.'

Source: Tess of the d'Urbervilles (abridged version)

Had Georgiana been less beautiful, he might have felt his love increased by the prettiness of that little hand.

Source: VOA Special October 2018 Collection

Looking after so many children had aged Joan Durbeyfield, but she still showed some of her early prettiness, which Tess had inherited.

Source: Tess of the d'Urbervilles (abridged version)

Yet it was a very ordinary face and its prettiness was strictly assembly line.

Source: Goodbye, My Love (Part 1)

And a 2011 study in the journal Physical Review Letters supported a different explanation: that a chord’s prettiness or ugliness is all in our heads—literally.

Source: SciShow Quick Questions and Answers Small Science Popularization

Everything here seemed of such a magnificent type to her eyes that she felt confused, diminished to half her height, half her strength, half her prettiness.

Source: The Romantic Adventure of the Milkmaid

Now I like to keep the skin on the apples, especially for this tart because then I just think you see the prettiness of the red peeking through.

Source: Thanksgiving recipes

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